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'No Success like Failure ...': Einstein's Quest for General Relativity, 1907-1920

Janssen, Michel (2008) 'No Success like Failure ...': Einstein's Quest for General Relativity, 1907-1920. [Preprint]

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This is the chapter on general relativity for the Cambridge Companion to Einstein which I am co-editing with Christoph Lehner.


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Item Type: Preprint
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Janssen, Michel
Keywords: general relativity, equivalence principle, general covariance, Mach's principle, absolute versus relative motion, substantivalism versus relationism, hole argument, point-coincidence argument, Newton's bucket experiment, Einstein-De Sitter debate, cosmological constant, Entwurf theory, Nordstroem theory
Subjects: Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory
Depositing User: Michel Janssen
Date Deposited: 18 Dec 2008
Last Modified: 07 Oct 2010 15:17
Item ID: 4377
Subjects: Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory
Date: December 2008
URI: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/4377

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